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Google Vs.
FrancecWhat did Google do?
Google Inc. was fined #203,500 by Frnce's data
protection watchdog for failing to give people
enough details about how ad why it uses their
personal data.
••••
Google also fails to say how
long it stores the data it processes adnd combines
"all the data it collects about its users across
all of its services without any legal basis,<"
France's National Commission for Computing and Ciil
Lieberties said.
••••
The fine follows a similar
penalty from Spain's data watchdog last month for
"three serious violations" of the country's privacy
law. The fines are part of several European
investigations started after the company made
changes to harmonize privacy policies for more than
60 products in 2012
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Tournament of Roses Parade Celebrates 125th
Anniversary, - Jan 1.
2014 Celebrated
Singers Clayton, Fischer, Hill and Love sing
National Anthem at historic 120th ROSE BOWL
GAME PASADENA, Calif. --
Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Judith Hill and
Darlene Love kicked off the pre-game festivities at
the 100th Rose Bowl Game presented by VIZIO with a
special performance of the Star-Spangled Banner on
January 1, 2014, at the Rose Bowl Stadium in
Pasadena.
••••Clayton,
Fischer, Hill and Love star in the
critically-acclaimed 2013 RADiUS film, "20 Feet
From Stardom" by award-winning director Morgan
Neville, which spotlights the untold stories of
backup singers behind some of the greatest musical
legends of the 21st century such as Bruce
Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Mick Jagger and Sting.
On Tuesday, December 3, the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 20 Feet
From Stardom made the Academy Awards shortlist in
the Documentary Feature category.
••••Clayton
lent her voice to a number of major performing
artists during the 1960s with her most notable
performance being a duet with Mick Jagger on the
Rolling Stones' song, "Gimme Shelter." She began
her career on Bobby Darin's "Who Can I Count On,"
which led to legendary Lou Adler signing her in
1970 and her debut solo album, "Gimme Shelter." As
an actress, Clayton appeared in the films Blame it
on the Night and Maid to Order. Currently, she is
putting the finishing touches on her
long-anticipated new CD.
••••
Fischer rose to fame in 1991
with her debut album, So Intense, which produced
the Grammy Award&endash;winning hit single, "How
Can I Ease the Pain." Prior to her solo career, she
began as a backup singer for a number of famous
artists, including Luther Vandross for 22 years and
Tina Turner on her Twenty Four Seven Tour, the
top-grossing worldwide tour of 2000. Fischer has
also toured with the Rolling Stones since 1989. In
2013, she joined the rock band Nine Inch Nails, as
a backing vocalist for their Tension 2013 tour.
••••
Hill, Sony Music recording
artist, has been praised by Rolling Stone for her
"stellar powerhouse vocals." In addition to penning
and performing her own material, Hill backed
artists such as Stevie Wonder, Elton John and the
late Michael Jackson. She was also a contestant on
season four of The Voice. She contributed backing
vocals to three tracks on Josh Groban's latest
chart topping album, All That Echoes, and opened
for Groban on his Fall 2013 In The Round arena
tour. Judith is currently in the studio working on
her debut.
••••
Since the early sixties,
Love has done it all - from major motion pictures
like the highly successful Lethal Weapon series to
Broadway hits like Hairspray and Grease and even
appearing in numerous television shows. Her
background vocals for The Blossoms, The Crystals,
The Righteous Brothers, Dionne Warwick, Marvin Gaye
and Elvis Presley, set the stage for her emergence
as a star in her own right. In 2011, Love recieved
the industry's highest award when she was inducted
in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
••••
This will mark the only
known time in the game's history that the national
anthem will be performed by an artist rather than a
Rose Bowl Game participating team band.
••••
In continuing with
tradition, Vin Scully, an icon in American sports
history and "the voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers"
for 64 years, will toss the coin at the start of
the 100th Rose Bowl Game as the Grand Marshal for
the 125th Tournament of Roses Parade, themed
"Dreams Come True."
••••
Pre-game festivities begin
at 1:30 p.m. PT. The game will feature the Michigan
State Spartans, champions of the Big Ten
Conference, versus the Stanford Cardinal, champions
of the Pac-12 Conference.
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The 25th Palm Springs Int'l Film Festival - Jan
3-13,
2014 •
JULIA ROBERTS TO RECEIVE SPOTLIGHT AWARD FOR
"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY" Palm SpringPalm Springs,
CA -- The 25th annual Palm Springs International
Film Festival (PSIFF) will present Academy
Award® winning actress Julia Roberts with the
Spotlight Award for August: Osage County at its
annual Awards Gala.
••••
British film
"Belle" will kick off the 25th anniversary edition
of the Palm Springs International Film Festival
expected to draw crowds in excess of 135,000.
••••
The festival
features 187 films from 60 countries and 77
international cinema premieres. Twelve films will
compete for the festival's New Voices/New Visions
Award with nominees hailing from Slovenia, Chile,
Iceland, South Korea and other countries..
••••"This
year's lineup is diverse in theme and content,
encompassing vintage work by established directors
alongside debuts by a vast number of newly emerging
talents," said festival director Darryl
Macdonald. "The overall quality of the films
vividly reflects the banner year we've seen in
cinema worldwide, with a trend towards more
personal, character-driven stories that defy easy
genre labels, making for a much richer, more
satisfying cinematic experience.".
••••The
festival wraps up with director Roger Michell's "Le
Week-End." The film, starring Jim Broadbent and
Lindsay Duncan, follows a married couple's trip to
Paris in an attempt to rekindle their love.
•••
The
PSIFF at its annual Awards
Gala will
also honor such stars as Sandra Bullock, Bruce
Dern, Matthew McConaughey
Tom Hanks,
Julia Roberts, director Steve McQueen and the cast
of "American Hustle." Three-time Oscar winner Meryl
Streep was named this year's Icon Award
recipient. •
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Troy Cory was among the
first international
entertainers and the
first American
entertainer to perform
in the People's Republic
of China, beginning in
1988. In itself a
notable
culture-historical feat,
in view of China's
closed door policies of
the late 70s and well
into the 80s. The PRC's
administrative climate
in comparison is much
less restrictive now and
China's open door policy
enables many
entertainers to
introduce themselves to
the populace Chinese
audiences•
•
•
• Back in
the 80s, as a goodwill
ambassador representing
the U.S.A., Troy Cory
and his back-up dancers
and singers, "The Brooke
Sisters," were the first
entertainers from the
United States to appear
in a full staged program
in the People's Republic
of China during the
Shanghai TV Festival,
and televised on China's
National Television
(CCTV), viewed by over
300 million
people.•
•
•
• It was
there Cory met Jiang
Zemin, then mayor of
Shanghai, and who later
became the 5th President
of the People's Republic
of
China.•
•
•
• • The
'88 Shanghai Concert was
the beginnings of Troy's
concert tours in China
for the next two
decades. The concerts,
just to name a few,
included the
followingcities:
Shanghai, Beijing,
Anshan, and Tsingtao
(Qingdao).•
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101 "Christmas Around
The World" -- Just In
The Nick of
Time"
Santa Tales iMovie
Series. •
She delivered the
Masterpieces to them.
-- .
. . But rather than
becoming excited they
acted like godless
heathans, thinking "so
what?" She felt
frustrated, angrry and
disappointed all of
which she did her best
to conceal. •
It Was Her D-Diaries
That
Reveled
The Method She Used . .
. to light the fire of
excitement to the
World? •101-
It was just last week,
(Nov 16th, 2013)
--that
Josie Cory &
Margit Seelos
discussed the
contributions of their
respective husbands
musical talents to the
world. It was in the
late 1970s that found
the two women pushing
both grown men to play
Santa Claus, elves, and
create the musical
scores for the
German/USA production
film "Merry
Christmas;" and
YouTube.com sequels:
"Just in the Nick of
Time," starring
Priscilla Cory,
as "Little Miss
Santa," and
featuring the late
German singer,
Manuela. The
Movie itself was
Produced by VRA TelePlay
Picture's, Josie
Cory; Bohemia Film's
Williams
Janovsky; and ARD's
Gábor
Wagner. • The Feature
Movie was filmed in
-- and around the city
of Munich, Nymphenburg
and Castle
Neuschwanstein, Germany
and in Oberndorf,
Austria, the small
village and church where
the Christmas carol
"Silent Night"
was performed for the
first time on December
25, 1818.
• The moral to the
Story? . . . No
matter how old you are .
. . if you have VISION
and a DREAM . . . do
what the little princess
did. Use the same FAITH
and decisiveness and
take
"ACTION."
•
Bing
Crosby did . . . Jimmy
Stewart did . .
.
and so did Troy Cory and
Ambros Seelos. None of
the performers
specifically or exactly
knew what, where and how
the words to those song
they sang would be
accepted by the
listener. It takes
"ACTION," "VISION,
and the "FAITH" of a
. . . "I Wish You A
Merry Christmas," or the
sound of "Jingle Bells,"
-- . . . to connect
the monetary RESULTS,
and value, to each
other.
•
Most of us don't even
know
-- the
true meaning of
CHRISTMAS! You have no
idea how demoralizing
that is to the new kids
being introduced each
year to the Yule Time
event," says the little
princess, now known as:
"Little Miss Santa." . .
.
Around Castle
Neuschwanstein, and the
small village and church
of Oberndorf where the
Christmas carol
"Silent Night"
was performed for the
first time on December
25,
1818,
the forest are full of
Christmas Trees. •
101 St.
Nicholas, the Castle
Neuschwanstein,
and the music of Troy
Cory and Ambros
Seelos •
•
The vocals, sound tracks
and string section on
the Munich Sound
recordings were provided
by Troy Cory, Ambros
Seelos, and "The Munich
Philharmonics." The
piano and musical
arrangements were
conducted by Ambros
Seelos and
Sylvester Levay.
Several years later it
was Levay who garnered a
Grammy Award for "Fly,
Robin, Fly," and wrote
the music scores for the
film "Howard the Duck"
and the Vienna musical
"Elisabeth." •
The Vision, and
Culture Values of --
Bavaria and Austria
hospitalities . . . were
used to set the pace of
this Yule Time joint
venture.
•••Troy
Cory
collaborated with VRA
TelePlay Pictures,
Cinema Prize Recordords
and Agil Musik
to get the final Results
of this annual religious
Mission.
Troy Cory co-wrote the
original song material
featured in this Movie
with the
Seelos/Levay/Michalke/Sigl/
team, in producing
the LPE-1685 Cinema
Prize album,
entitled, "Today's
Puzzle,"
and CD2525
recording: "An OL'
Christmas Card, now
available at
Amazon.com.
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The place that was: Vine
Street Stage,
Hollywood Located
in the heart of
Hollywood, across from
what used to be the
Hollywood Ranch Market,
the Stage was formerly
used to produce the
popular national
syndicated Groucho Marx
Show and Steve Allen
Shows.
••••
In
the mid 70s the Corys
accquired the property
and from 1976-1979 -
Troy Cory's Vine Street
Studio was the loction
of the first Music
Videos produced: Rod
Stewart ("If Ya Think
I'm Sexy," and "Blondes
Have More Fun;" Alana
Stewart; Nicolette
Larson; Jackson Browne;
Tom Petty and the Heart
Breakers; Randy Meisner
of the Eagles; Kiss;
Joni Mitchell; Rachel
Welch; German singer
Manuela; James Coburn
(Schlitz Beer
commercial); Ronnie
McDonald (McDonalds);
••••
••••
It's
most famous tentant was
the Peter Marshall owned
"Au Petit Cafe, a
popular "hangout" for
people in the
industry.
••••
In
1979, the undisputed
Queen of Disco, Donna
Summer, was topping the
pop charts with "Hot
Stuff," she decided to
own her own studio near
her Hancock Park Home
and bought Vine Street
Studios from the Corys
and started occupying
the studio proprty in
January of 1980. Vine
Street Video moved its
research editing and
video optical disks
division to Pasadena,
Calfornia, near the Rose
Bowl . . .
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Street,
Hollywood
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It was just last week,
(Nov 3rd, 2013)
-- that
Josie Cory &
Margit Seelos
discussed the
contributions of their
respective husbands
musical talents to the
world. It was in the
late 1970s that found
the two women pushing
both grown men to play
Santa Claus, elves, and
create the musical
scores for the
German/USA production
film "Merry
Christmas;" and
YouTube.com sequels:
"Just in the Nick of
Time," starring
Priscilla Cory,
as "Little Miss
Santa," and
featuring the late
German singer,
Manuela. The
Movie itself was
Produced by VRA TelePlay
Picture's, Josie
Cory; Bohemia Film's
Williams
Janovsky; and ARD's
Gábor
Wagner. • The Feature
Movie was filmed in --
and around the city
of Munich, Nymphenburg
and Castle
Neuschwanstein, Germany
and in Oberndorf,
Austria, the small
village and church where
the Christmas carol
"Silent Night"
was performed for the
first time on December
25, 1818.
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•
101 St.
Nicholas, the Castle
Neuschwanstein,
and the music of Troy
Cory and Ambros
Seelos •
•
The vocals, sound tracks
and string section on
the Munich Sound
recordings were provided
by Troy Cory, Ambros
Seelos, and "The Munich
Philharmonics." The
piano and musical
arrangements were
conducted by Ambros
Seelos and
Sylvester Levay.
Several years later it
was Levay who garnered a
Grammy Award for "Fly,
Robin, Fly," and wrote
the music scores for the
film "Howard the Duck"
and the Vienna musical
"Elisabeth."
•
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TheWiTEL-ID-phoneNumber In
a threat to the 4th
Amendment, law
enforcement is using
location data as a
crime-fighting tool.
Concern
over mobile phone
networks becoming
surveillance tools, the
American Civil Liberties
Union recently asked
hundreds of local law
enforcement agencies
whether they've tracked
people's movements
through their
cellphones. Most of
those that responded
said they had, usually
obtaining the
information from mobile
phone companies without
a warrant. The practice
has become so routine,
the ACLU found, that
phone companies are
sending out catalogs of
monitoring services with
detailed price lists to
police agencies. The
alarming findings should
persuade Congress to
clarify that the
government can't follow
someone electronically
without showing probable
cause and obtaining a
warrants.
•••
The Supreme Court has
long held that the 4th
Amendment guarantee
against unreasonable
searches and
seizures
requires police to
obtain a warrant if the
intrusion would violate
a target's "reasonable
expectation of
privacy." Mobile
phone networks collect
another - type
of data that wire-line
networks don't: They
register a phone's
location continuously as
long as it's turned on,
even when it's not in
use. Those records can
be exceptionally
revealing; as the ACLU
put it, the potential
insights range "from
which friends you're
seeing to where you go
to the doctor to how
often you go to
church." The
fact that phone
companies are collecting
fees
-- for providing this
information raises the
additional question of
whether their financial
interests trump their
customers' privacy
interests. Looking for
an answer, Rep. Edward
J. Markey recently asked
the major wireless
carriers how much money
they've collected from
law enforcement agencies
and whether they
actively market their
information-gathering
services.
•••A
growing number of courts
have been pushing back
against the Justice
Department's permissive
approach, but the
rulings haven't been
uniform. Nor are there
clear rules to
distinguish emergencies
from routine
investigations, live
tracking from the
examination of stored
data, or
any
of the many other
complexities. Rather
than trusting judges to
sort it all out,
Congress should make it
clear that the
protections that apply
to phone conversations
also apply to location
data. No warrant, no
tracking.
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Bob Thompson made music
with audacious sound.
The
composer and arranger
passed away
May
21 in a Los Angeles.
(1924-2013)
••••
Thompson
was one of the foremost
composers and arrangers
and is most famous for
what came to be known as
the arranger for the
Sonny Bono-Troy Cory
Speciatly Record Lable
Productions. His Space
Age pop, or "Space Age
bachelor pad" music
&endash; tunes that
allowed hi-fi buffs to
turn the lights down
low, mix the perfect
martini and set the
mood.
••••
But
his music was more than
mood music. The writer
and arranger provided
the hi-fi soundtrack for
a
swinging-bachelor
lifestyle coming of age
in the late1950s. His
one-of-a-kind discs
feature a singular sound
that evokes cocktail
glasses, swingin' guys
and gals, and all-night
mischief. His music was
often a spin on old jazz
standards, equipping
them with hip choral
sounds and ping-ponging
stereo sound effects.
Thompson's 1960 album,
"The Sound of Speed,"
was a tribute to fast
living, with orchestral
riffs inspired by jet
engines, race cars.
••••Bob's
career spanned 40 years
and garnered a Grammy
Nomination, with 100s of
TV commercials plus
stints as composer or
arranger for Bing
Crosby, Rosemary
Clooney, Ruth Olay, and
Judy Garland to name a
few. Along the way he
created Just for Kicks,
On the Rocks, MMM Nice!
and The Sound of
Speed.
•••••Troy
Cory
(TVI's
iPublisher) looking back
at his time at Specialty
Records remembers Bob
Thompson as one of the
best. Thompson was the
arranger and conductor
on Troy Cory's
recordings, Down on
the Beach and
Just One More
Chance. •
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Cory's Road to Harbin,
China
•
Troy Cory was among the first
international entertainers and
the first American entertainer to
perform in the People's Republic
of China, beginning in 1988. In
itself a notable
culture-historical feat, in view
of China's closed door policies
of the late 70s and well into the
80s. The PRC's administrative
climate in comparison is much
less restrictive now and China's
open door policy enables many
entertainers to introduce
themselves to the populace
Chinese
audiences•
•
•
•
Back in the 80s, as a goodwill
ambassador representing the
U.S.A., Troy Cory and his back-up
dancers and singers, "The Brooke
Sisters," were the first
entertainers from the United
States to appear in a full staged
program in the People's Republic
of China during the Shanghai TV
Festival, and televised on
China's National Television
(CCTV), viewed by over 300
million
people.•
•
•
• It
was there Cory met Jiang Zemin,
then mayor of Shanghai, and who
later became the 5th President of
the People's Republic of
China.•
•
•
•
• The
'88 Shanghai Concert was the
beginnings of Troy's concert
tours in China for the next two
decades. The concerts, just to
name a few, included the
following cities: Shanghai,
Beijing, Anshan, and Tsingtao
(Qingdao).•
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History:
Founded in 1956 by
ABC's
Sam
Donaldson
and his partner
Al
Preiss
and acquired by the
Cory's in
1987.
In
March, 1963, TVI
hosted the first
"Annual Festival of
World TV Classics
Award " at the
Huntington Hartford
Theater. It grew to
command the print
readership of
television network
executives in 142
countries on six
continents, covering
the industry of
television, film,
telecommunication and
WiTEL. In the middle
90s TVI Magazine went
online:
tvimagazine.com
•
• "People
read what they want,"
says tviNews. "There is
no master plan what
people are interested
in." The question is,
how can we partner with
people to have a
symbiotic
realationship?
•
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From Germs, and Genes- Comes
Patent. Natural Genetic from The
US Supreme Court ruled on June
13th that
DNA
is a natural generic phenomenon,
and cannot be Patented. Unless
the DNA has been produced
synethetically in a lab, it is
not a patentable invention. It
was in 1980, the high court
helped trigger the biotech
revolution in medicine and
agriculture-- when it ruled for
the first time that a living
organism could be patented. That
decision upheld a patent for a
bacteria that could break down
crude oil.
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